Gymnast Abigail Moriearty plays a reindeer at Prestonwood Baptist Church through Sunday

When she’s not helping Santa fly his sleigh, she continues to work on her gymnastics skills. She was invited to participate in the Acro Cup in Kansas City, MO in March; that’s one of the qualifiers for the USA National Team and World Championships in France in 2014.

Tell me for a story — with the U.S. Women’s Gymnastic Team and Gabby Douglas bringing home the gold, are your kids clamoring to do gymnastics? Are you signing them up or have you already signed them up? If your kids are already doing gymnastics, has it been a struggle to find the right balance of ambition, fun and safety? And what do you think of the new gymnastics dolls out on the market — McKenna from American Girl and Fantastic Gymnastics Dora from Mattel? Please include contact information so I can call you!

It’s been a thrill to see our own Nastia Liukin, go for her dream — again – as she cleared the first hurdle towards winning a spot on the U.S. Olympics gymnastic team with a third place finish on the balance beam. You can read about it here.

Some may wonder how she can pull herself in shape so quickly after taking three years off, but I wasn’t surprised. After talking to her mom, Anna, about how she raised her back after Nastia became a Gold Medalist in 2008 (winning the all-around gold and five medals in all) and talking to Nastia herself in 2010 after she launched her Supergirl clothing line for kids, I learned that eating right and exercising isn’t just something she does to prepare for competition; it’s a way of life. And that had to give her a head start when she decided to get back in the game.

You can read Anna Liukin’s top five tips on how to raise a healthy child here and read my interview with Nastia herself on her own thoughts about health and what inspires her here. P.S. I love how she says that as an only child, she found all her “siblings” at the gym — the place she feels most at home!

PHOTO: Nastia Liukin stretches as she returns to competition for the first time since 2009, during a practice session for the US Classic gymnastics meet Friday, May 25 2012, in Chicago. Photo by Charles Rex Arbogast/AP